Justice

It is about to get busy again, but I must admit I am enjoying looking at stuff at my leisure.
I was looking at what various ones have said about injustice.  I do have a problem with it.  So often it seems one group suppress another because they can. What is morally right does not come into the equation.  It is the old “might is right” scenario.  It seems the suffering of others is secondary to a perpetrators will.
Someone at our market said to me recently that they are tired of others wanting only what they want without thought for others.  It seems to me this is a micro and macro issue right now.
The cry of the oppressed is suppressed.  I do hold onto a hope though.  Justice may be slow, and seemingly too slow, but it always prevails.
One of the reasons this post is a little later than some is I have been reading about William Gladstone – a prime minister of Britian.  Actually, he was prime minister four times.  It was something he said that caused me to read more about him.  I sorta got interested in knowing more about him when I read, “what is morally wrong cannot be politically right.”
I do not hold him up as someone without fault.  My custom is to use what I like and learn from what I don’t.  I do like the saying (not his), “…every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”   There is only one in history I would hold up as consistently morally virtuous.
Anyway, Gladstone was known as “The people’s William” in an age in Britian when what nobility wanted was mostly the only will considered, and the common person was seen to be but a pawn with non-existent rights.
It has been interesting to me to see what various ones said about justice.  Benjamin Franklin said, “justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
Martin Luther King refers to it often. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”  Finally, I do think there is truth in something I read that he wrote.  “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamour of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”